Publisher's View

We asked you for the best NKY has to offer and
the nominations poured in for spa treatments, pet care, dry cleaners,
bookstore, farmers market, fitness trail, car wash. Well, you get the
picture.

Then we invited the readers to party with the
finalists at Receptions and cast their votes. More than 700 people came
for an evening of great food, super music and displays. T.W. Landscape
and Design built a garden wall inside the ballroom, Donna Salyers and
her crew set up a faux fur fashion showroom, and Florence Antique Mall
brought a myriad of treasures to explore.

We’ve tallied the results and it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to the inaugural Best of NKY issue.

Second, I wanted to personally thank our readers,
the very welcoming NKY community and our NKY magazine staff for honors
we received from the Society of Professional Journalists. In our first
year of publication, we won First Place for a story on St. Henry’s
Crusading Spirit (NKY, Spring 2011) written by Managing Editor Tim
Curtis. A story on the wonderful names of communities in the
commonwealth “Turn Left at Rabbit Hash?” (NKY, November 2011) by Tanya
Bricking Leach was also honored.